2007 got off to a very Indian
flavour for Pete. In early January pete went out to
Kolkatta where he toured locally and
recorded with Bikram Ghosh. There was
also a TV special recorded for an international Indian station which
featured Pete being interviewed by Tanmoy Bose.
Pete then set sail for Chennai where he
recorded with Rajesh Mandolin. After a
brief break back in the UK for some sessions it was back to
Chennai for a solo gig on the same bill
as Indian legends Shuba Mudgal and
Bombay Jayshree. Then there was a
performance with U Shrinivas at the
Dyhanalinga temple in front of 100,000
people. The show was also broadcast live on national TV. The trip
was wound up with recording work on a 'big news' Tamil film called
'SIVAJI' with
Superstar actor Rajini Kanth
and
music by
AR Rahman. Then it was back to
London to perform at Ronnie Scotts with
Steve Smiths Vital Information. Pete
also got news that he narrowly missed first spot in
the readers polls of Rhythm magazine
for BEST LIVE PERCUSSIONIST 2006 and
BEST STUDIO PERCUSSIONIST 2006
Pete was then back in
Chennai for ten days performing solo on the same bill as
Shakti at the founders day celebrations
of Vikku
Vinayakrams grandfathers percussion school. There was
also another TV special recorded for SS music
and a number of live radio performances.
Photos here!
Pete also started work on a special new album which features the
great Vikku Vinayakram, Bikram Ghosh, Rajesh Mandolin, Mahesh
Vinayakram and Pete.
Then Pete was off to Canada to perform at
the Cape Bretton international drum fest.
Pete performed a solo set and also duets with
Michael Shrieve (Santana) and Ed Mann
(Zappa). Pete is also writing and recording with Michael
Shrieve on his new album. Then it was back to India for more
recording with Bickram Ghosh and then
back to the UK for recordings with Lee Scratch
Perry and Aidrian Sherwood / Primal
Scream.
Pete also performed with
Steve Hiltons FLYKKILER and Pete Lawrences
Chilled by Nature at the big chill
festival along with Remo Fernandes.
Then Pete was off to the USA for a solo performance and duet
performance with Steve Smith at the New
Hampshire drum expo. He also got a chance to visit the
Zildjian factory in Boston where there could well be some
'Lockett creations' in their drum circle ranges.
Pete was then off to Russia
for recordings and performances with George
Brooks and Russian outfit, Goatika. The
TAALISMAN project with
Amit Chatterjee also performed at
Birdland in Austria. Then Pete was back in India for the month of
December. Highlights included concerts with
Bickram Ghosh,
Kadri Gopalnath
, and Ghatam
Suresh, including a performance at the 70th birthday
celebrations for the legend TV Gopalkhrishnan.
There was also a recording with some of the best musicians of
Calcutta, including the great Pandit Shankar
Ghosh.
There were also
recordings with Indian rock band, ‘Bandish’
including a percussion feature on the title track on their new
album.
Pete also finalised the details on his first
Indian CD release, 'Journeys with the master
drummers of India' which will
come out with
'Music Today' in 2008. The
trip wound up with NDTV doing a 30min special on
Pete, Bickram and Bandish to be
broadcast early 2008.
Pete has also signed with
HUDSON MUSIC in the states. They will release his book
'Indian rhythms for the drum set' in
2008.
Pete is also working on a new project called
XTAL. This is a re-mix project taking
Aphex Twin tracks and giving them the full percussion
treatment.
NEW ALBUM RELEASED
APRIL 07. Pete live in Istanbul @ Babylon club 2006 with
special guests Tarik Tuysuzoglu
on percussion and
Serdar Pazarcioglu on violin. Lots of solo percussion with
electronics and some tracks with some great Turkish flavours. All
Petes albums are now available on itunes
and napster etc.
Pete;s new album
Pete with Bickram Ghosh in Kolkatta
Pete was
voted #1 BEST LIVE PERCUSSIONIST 2005
in a readers poll of Rhythm magazine
& best live
percussionist 2005 on international drum site,
mikedolbear.com
This website was also voted in the top ten worldwide drum &
percussion websites 2005 at alexa.com.
Thanks to all those who voted.
Pete's Album,
Taiko to Tabla with Joji Hirota
was included in top 55 rhythm albums of all time in
Songlines magazine, August 2006
Highlights of 2006
It’s was a busy 2006 in Pete
Lockett’s percussion world. Pete has been working closely
with Doug Wimbish of
Living Colour on his new album,
including a few live dates with Doug, the highlight of which was
with Will Calhoun and
Skip Macdonald at Wembley conference
centre. Pete Has also been touring the UK with his
Parallax beat brothers project
featuring Scanner which has a new release in Japan autumn 06. Their summer performances included the Big Chill
festival, including visuals by Pete and
Scanner.
Pete also toured in June with with a new trio featuring
Fazal Qureshi (Zakirs brother) and
Amit Chatterjee, guitarist from the
Zawinal syndicate. The project was a
great success and lots more is planned for the future. They have
recently been recording in London.
Pete at Zildjian with John DeChristopher
There's also a Quartet with
Bikram Ghosh from Calcutta, British
saxophonist Jesse Banister and Algerian
violinist Djamel
Benyelles – They
recorded in the summer and have done a video for their debut
album. On the session front Pete arranged and recorded solo
percussion on the new James Bond film, becoming the first one to
freeze the entire ProTools system at Air Studios with 96
simultaneous tracks of percussion! Bwahaha! Pete also recorded
percussion for Adrian Sherwoods acclaimed new album on Real World.
Pete also released a new album with
Parallax beat brothers in late 2006.
'Twisted Artifacts' is now available on
itunes and all digital mp3 sites, as is Petes album 'Live
in Istanbul'.
 
PBB new album
Pete with Bickram & Rhythmscape in
Kolkatta
Pete also
performed solo at the South Bank Centres Purcell Room for the Indian
Bahar festival in June. TV and Film
work continues thick and fast, including the bad girls TV series and
numerous projects wit composer David Arnold.
Pete has also been busy with clinics and solo
shows and was one of the tutors at the
Marktoberdorf drum week in Germany along with
Steve Smith, Johnny Rabb and many more.
Check out the videos here!
(Web page).
There have also been live performances with Indian Sarod masters,
Amaan and Ajaan Ali Khan, including a
show at Womad, UK and in San Francisco.
Other solo shows included the vibes from the vines
festival, drums in the weald and some shows in Switzerland.
From there, after a chill out period in Kenya pete was off to LA to
record with Steve Smiths Vital Information and then Russ Miller on his new
album and Nelly Furtado. Then there was a video shoot with
Steve Sidelynk for their new project, Force of Two shot by video
guru, Steve Chivers in the Hollywood hills. Pete is also
recording tracks with drummer Johnny Rabb for an up tempo drum n
bass project. There have also been performances with Little
Axe following the release of their new album.
Congo Square - New Orleans Musicians Benefit
Pete is also involved in this massive project, produced by drummer
Fabian Jolivet (engineered by Eric
Corne), features an ensemble intro piece depicting the african
slave’s journey to the new world. It includes all kinds of drum set,
hand percussion, vibes, marimba, and even tap dancing solos. Some of
the best drummers in the world have started recording at Mad Dog
studios in Los Angeles, CA…Clem Burke
(Blondie, Eurythmics, Iggy Pop); Ruben
Estrada’s on latin marimbas & DJ Bonebrake (X, The Knitters)
on cool vibes, Richie Hayward (Little
Feat, Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton); Brazilian great
Airto Moreira (Stan Getz, Weather
Report, Miles Davis), Peter Erskine
(Joni Mitchel, Steely Dan) jazz great Jimmy
Cobb (Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane);
Simon Kirke (Free, Bad Company); Cindy
Blackman (Jackie Mc Lean, Lenny Kravitz);
Richie Morales (Gato Barbieri, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans) and
the legendary Joe Morello (Stan Kenton,
Dave Brubeck). The London (UK) sessions will include classical great
Evelyn Glennie (all Philharmonics);
Pete Lockett (Bjork, Peter Gabriel,
Jeff Beck) & Andy Newmark (Sly Stone,
John Lennon, Roxy Music). The very abstract
Thomas Bloch (Radiohead, Black Rider, John Cage) is currently
recording a piece in Paris. 100% (sales & publishing) generated from
this Drum Circle will go to help the Crescent
City’s musicians in need fund.
Pete's most recent interview is here, at
mikedolbear.com.
Pete interview
Pete live at the Royal Opera House, London
with Ed Thigpen
Highlights of 2005
2005 got off to an exciting start for
Pete, inc recording with Daniel & Natasha
Bedingfield @ Air studios,
American band Euphoria @
Metropolis, David
Arnold @ Air studios, American
singer Jes (Of MotorcycleBand, USA
Billboard top ten 2004) @ Westlake studios,
Los Angeles.
Whilst in LA Pete
also spent a day at REMO working on
some new drum designs and signature drums. Next up was a performance
and clinic at the PAS UK event for
REMO drums and on the same day he is
off to Istanbul for a mini tour with Adrian Sherwood. Pete has, as
featured artist also written a series of in depth articles for
Computer Music mag on drum programming
and sequencing percussion, including programming natural sounding
Tabla parts.
Then there was more recording. Albums with
Legendary Indian singer HaraHaran at
Sweet Georgia Browns in London, Greg
Hunter (ex The Orb) @ London
view studios and also with the seventy year old Rhajastani Gypsy
vocalist, Rheshma at
Abbey road studios.
It has also been a time of new projects for Pete
with his duo EP release with Steve Sidelynk
(Madonna) which has got to the mixing
stage with some ultra dub mixes being done by
Aid Sherwood/On-U-Sound and also Chris
Potter at Metropolis. Then there is the new duo
project with Scanner called "PARALLAX BEAT
BROTHERS" which has now released its first album,
‘Autek’ The project is an
electro-acoustic combination with electronic wizard Scanner and
special guest Jon Hassell on trumpet. The project appeared at Rhythm
Sticks at the Royal festival hall this year had an extensive UK tour in
Oct/Nov.
Check a review here! Pete also was involved for Rhythm at Rhythm sticks and gave
a drum set clinic at the rhythm day in the Purcell Room.
Pete is also recording and mixing tracks for his
new album which has so far involved recording trips to
Azerbaijan,
Pakistan and India to get some
of the worlds top singers and instrumentalists, inc
Rajesh Mandolin from
Madras and Riaz
Ali Khan from Lahore.
In April Pete was live at
the Babylon club with Turkish percussion master:
Tarik
and
Turkish violinist Serdar.
The following night Pete guested for the
evening at
the Nardis jazz club in Istanbul with great guitarist
Ofer Ziv and his band. There have
also been gigs with the Taiko to Tabla
project in the UK.
Pete
in the Wild West by Tess Laurence
Pete then had a short trip to Croatia for some
solo gigs at the Seaside Jazz festival, Vodice and the Split Jazz
festival. He also guested with the group, Voices of Nature . He was
then off to Denmark for ten days to record an album and perform with
Danish guitarist Henrik Anderson (ex Trilok Gurtu band).
MP3 clip
Video clip
Live with Henrik Anderson in Copenhagen
Then there was more work back in London on the duo
project with Steve Sidelynk. Craig Armstrong has co-writen
a track for the project with Pete and Steve at
Craig's studio in Scotland. Pete was then
performing with Chandru and the Bollywood strings, including a
performance with the BBC concert orchestra at the Proms in Hyde Park
which was live on BBC2.
Pics here!
Pete performing at the Proms in Hyde Park
2005
Pete then performed solo at the
drummer live event at Wembley in London on the main stage. The
show featured guest Taiko drummer Liz
Walters.
Check out pics here! Pete also
did some live dates with Phil Clemo's 'Separated by shadows' project.
Next he is off to
the Falkland Islands for a series of solo performances & workshops
besides guesting with a local band on some gigs.
Crikey, is this how they get to gigs in Denmark!
Pete with Shankar Ghosh, Bickram and
family
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